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PCMS Burrows vocab words 2010
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8th Grade
01/04/2010
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Blight
 Definition
To destroy
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Nuance
 Definition
tiny details
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Centripetal
 Definition
Moving toward center
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Profligate
 Definition
To curropt, wasteful
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Atrophy
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To waste away
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Sacrosanct
 Definition
Off limits
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Xenophobia
 Definition
fear of strangers
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Incendiary
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Flamble
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Zealot
 Definition
Over passoniate about a cause
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Juggernaut
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Over whelming force
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Enagrin
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A feeling of embarrsament because of faliure
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Holocaust
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A great decrition of life, espically by fire
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Exemplar
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One that is considered worthy of imaition
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Irresoultue
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Indescive
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Vulnerable
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Capble of being wounded
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Prominent
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To stand out
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Ration
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The food allownace for a day
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Vertiable
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Authentic
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Penury
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Poverty
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Peril
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Dangerous
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Petrify
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To frighten
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Tumult
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Confusion
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Invective
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Verbal abuse
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Camaradtre
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A working friendship
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Sage
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A wise person
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Intersperse
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To scatter
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Vigor
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Power or energy
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Oblivion
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Mental blackness
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Oppress
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To overpower
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Asscertain
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To make sure
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Convaleocnt
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getting better
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Quagmire
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A difficult stuation
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Prodigious
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Enourmous
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Pilfer
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To steal
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Fourbear
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To stay out
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Warrant
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To justify
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Vacillation
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Indesicion
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Duplicity
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Dishonesty
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Dilettonte
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Somebody who study's a subject for fun
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Despotic
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Like a traniant
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Solecism
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Grammatical mastake
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Omission
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The act of leaving out
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Myriad
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A uncountable number
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Incursion
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A raid
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Impalpable
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Untouchable
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Dubious
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Doutbtful
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Appalled
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Shocked
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Inscrutable
 Definition
Not easily interperted
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Susurration
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A murmur
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Tirade
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A angry rant
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Indignantly
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Aregencely anger
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Clamour
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A loud noise
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Martyred
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Self scrafising
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Ebullence
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Authestic
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Errant
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Aimless;no purpose
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Abyss
 Definition
Void or nothingness
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Vicissitudes
 Definition
Changing cirumstances
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